Questions to Master Deshimaru

Question

If we can neither choose nor refuse, how can we live a moral life?

Answer

Morality is necessary and you should follow it insofar as possible. But morality is not everything. Sometimes it is necessary, sometimes not. And religion is beyond morality. In morality only the actions of body and speech are involved; but the action of the consciousness goes farther than that. How should we think? We must find true freedom. For morality, too much sex is not good. But in the Lotus Sutra, for example, it is written that "sexual orgasm is the true, pure spirit of the bodhisattva." Only a master can read this sutra; for you it would be nothing but pornography and it would be dangerous for me to teach it to you. How do we solve the problem of morality? We must not lean either right or left, and we must not worry about leaning right or left. Balance is what is important, and that is what I teach.